Asia Oriental o Asia del Este es una región de Asia que puede ser definida geográficamente o en términos culturales. En geografía política cubre un área de 6.640.000 km², o cerca de 15% del continente asiático. Más de 1.500 millones de personas, un 38% de Asia y el 22% mundial, viven en Asia Oriental, lo que equivale al doble de Europa, aunque son menos que en Asia del Sur. Asia Oriental es una de las regiones más sobrepobladas, su densidad de población es el triple que la media mundial. La ONU define Asia del Este como una subregión compuesta por China, Corea del Norte, Corea del Sur, Japón, Mongolia y las dependencias de Hong Kong y Macao; a esto habría que añadir Taiwán (República de China) que la ONU considera parte de la República Popular China., Asia Oriental abarca a la población sinoparlante, japonesa, coreana y mongola.

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East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent, which can be defined in either geographical or ethno-cultural terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km2 (4,600,000 sq mi), or about 28% of the Asian continent, about 15% bigger than the area of Europe. East Asian people are more than 1.5 billion people, about 38% of the population of Asia and 22% or over one fifth of all the people in the world, live in East Asia. Although the coastal and rivery areas of the region form one of the world's most populated places, the population in Mongolia and Western China, both landlocked areas, is very sparsely distributed, with Mongolia having the lowest population density of a sovereign state. The overall population density of the region is 133 inhabitants per square kilometre (340/sq mi), about three times the world average of 45/km2 (120/sq mi). Historically, societies in East Asia have been part of the Chinese cultural sphere, and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from Classical Chinese and Chinese script. Major religions include Buddhism (mostly Mahayana), Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion in China and Taiwan, Shinto in Japan, Shamanism and Christianity in Korea. Shamanism is also prevalent in Mongolia and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia. The Chinese Calendar is the root from which many other East Asian calendars are derived.

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